Inventor Stoned by “Ghost”
A “ghost” throwing stones at an Italian inventor’s home baffled more than 100 police and firemen in Westville, New Jersey, and could not be routed even with machine-gun fire.
The barrage at Naz Tomasetti’s house started from a nearby thicket, and continued even when police arrived in strength. Policemen fired into the thicket and went through it arm in arm without finding anybody.
Tomasetti, who went to the U.S. four years ago told police that a similar stoning attack by mysterious throwers happened to him when he lived in Italy.
He is reported to have invented some kind of guided missile. After the stoning, Tomasetti found a note written in Italian on a piece of cardboard, saying “You will get no peace until you turn over the plans of the torpedo.”
Aberdeen Evening Express, 23rd October 1956